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Odoreida

(1,549 posts) Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:56 AM Feb 2020

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We CAN afford "Medicare for all" but ... [View all]

... but not unless we give up being World Cop.

I'm all for it.

But we will have to choose. Nobody can afford both.

We already know what Republicans choose.
When Republicans say we can't afford it, this is what really is going on.
They don't even think of themselves as lying, they just take being World Cop as a given.

What about Democrats? Still room for peaceniks in this party?

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We CAN afford "Medicare for all" but ... [View all] Odoreida Feb 2020 OP

we dont get dental with medicare for all...i would STILL have to buy a supplement.. samnsara Feb 2020 #1

You would get dental included area51 Feb 2020 #8

We're already not affording a way worse system, so we could go to single payer, waste less money brewens Feb 2020 #2

You always hear moondust Feb 2020 #3

This edhopper Feb 2020 #4

No need to ask then, we already know ... Odoreida Feb 2020 #5

It's not either/or at all. Disaffected Feb 2020 #6

Exactly Calculating Feb 2020 #7

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